The former president Álvaro Uribe He attends, for the third consecutive day, the courts of Paloquemao in Bogotá, to give testimony in the trial that advances against him for the crimes of bribery to witnesses and procedural fraud.
during the first two days, the natural leader of the Democratic Center denied the alleged illegal strategy that would have led to “twist” the testimonies of some paramilitaries. On the contrary, he said that against him a plot was created that would have been orchestrated by former president Juan Manuel Santos and asked to investigate the participation of the FARC guerrillas in this judicial case.
11:05 a.m.
On March 23, 2018, Álvaro Uribe’s defense sent a document to the Supreme Court of Justice in which they reported the visits that “El Tuso” Sierra in prison in Piedad Cördoba, Iván Cepeda and Rodrigo Lara received.
“The information that my prohijado (Uribe Vélez) says was provided indicates that in the aforementioned visit the mentioned internal would have been investigated on possible links of my prohibition with groups outside the lawappearance that was denied by Sierra Ramirez who would have sustained no knowledge about it. Likewise, according to what has been informed of my project, in the meeting they would have made similar offerings to those that have been denounced in this process, ”reads the letter.
At that time, lawyer Jaime Granados asked the Court to hear the statements of the Sierra Ramírez exparamilitary.
“That test, as far as I knew, was never practiced,” said Uribe.
10:31 a.m.
Uribe said he tried to contact “El Tuso” to pay version about that meeting he held with politicians in the United States prison. However, The exparamilitary demanded the presence of the dentist Juan Manuel Aguilar.
9:21 a.m.
The defense released a conversation between Uribe Vélez and the lawyer Diego Cadena on March 12, 2018. In it, the former president reported the meeting that said “El Tuso” with Córdoba, Cepeda and Lara in the United States prison and of the apparent offers they made to harm him.
“I asked for a video and said that I did not send it because between E 2 and 3 April it is summoned with the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office and that that day will declare in the case of Luis Alfredo Ramos and that that day he will also refer to mine and will tell the details of that meeting,” Uribe was heard.
Following that, the former president criticized his lawyers Jaime Granados and Jaime Lombana for leaving the complaints that have been configured against him advance for the alleged links with illegal armed actors: “That is neglect, that’s negligence.”
9:09 a.m.
Uribe said that he met these visits to “El Tuso” Sierra in the United States in March 2018 and tried to contact the exparamilitary to record a video in which he told the apparent pressures. He did not succeed.
“I was very distressed when I find out that in the United States testimonies were requested from the alleged links of my brother Santiago and I with paramilitaries. I was quite worried because I have always been careful to proceed honestly in my political exercise,” said Uribe.
8:39 a.m.
The former president denied any relationship with Juan Carlos “El Tuso” Sierra Ramírez. The exparamilitary already reported in this trial that, while he was imprisoned in the United States, he was visited by several people – among them Iván Cepeda, Piedad Córdoba and Rodrigo Lara – who tried to interrogate him about the apparent relationship of the former president with the paramilitaries.
According to Sierra, during that meeting, Córdoba and Cepeda offered to manage the asylum of his family in Switzerland in exchange for declared about the alleged links of former president Álvaro Uribe with paramilitary groups.
